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A Stirring Life: Big Enough
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Thursday, September 15, 2011. In nearly 48 hours from now, my little brother will be getting married. His bride-to-be is a wonderful young lady, who happens to share my exact first and middle name! I have had the privilege to get to know her over the last several months and will proudly stand beside her {in my guava colored bridesmaids' dress} as she marries the love of her life, my little brother. I pray that He restores my joy and infuses my heart with happiness before Saturday. To handle it all. So so...
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A Stirring Life: April 2012
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Monday, April 23, 2012. It was exactly 3 years ago last Friday, April 20th, that our world swiftly tilted. So last Thursday, April 19th, I paused. I tried to recollect how I was (who I was? Before April 20th happened. I imagined myself going about my day that was probably nothing far from ordinary. Was I happier? Because that was all before. Before the madness. Before the shatter. Before I ceased to be who I was and started to become who I am now. Or more like, who I had made Him out to be. And since the...
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A Stirring Life: September 2011
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Thursday, September 15, 2011. In nearly 48 hours from now, my little brother will be getting married. His bride-to-be is a wonderful young lady, who happens to share my exact first and middle name! I have had the privilege to get to know her over the last several months and will proudly stand beside her {in my guava colored bridesmaids' dress} as she marries the love of her life, my little brother. I pray that He restores my joy and infuses my heart with happiness before Saturday. To handle it all. I hes...
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A Stirring Life: A Tiny Blessing
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011. I hesitate to put fingers to keys, feelings to words, to give heartache a voice. Should pain be kept private? I remember reading once that a loaf of bread will feed only one, but broken, it will feed many. I do believe that allowing our brokenness to be shared can bring healing to other broken hearts, knits us together who have gone through similar trials, gives us courage to continue on the hard road. I had a tiny blessing. We were expecting our fifth child! Children whom I ...
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A Stirring Life: Mingled
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Monday, November 30, 2009. Grief and joy can co-exist. I wouldn't have thought so before. Olivia because, at least to me, they seem like polar opposites. But I have found, that even on the darkest day, there is joy to be found. At first, it was probably mostly grief with little bits of joy mixed in, but gradually the days have changed to not include so much grief. There is more joy now, with bits of grief scattered here and there. And just because I am smiling does not mean that I never grieve. I most ce...
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A Stirring Life: Do you know?
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Friday, December 09, 2011. Do you know, little fuzzy-haired boy. How loved you are by me who shares no DNA? Do you know, boy with curious eyebrows. How curious I am at what your future holds, wondering if this time will be the last time I see you, begging God to find you and fill you? Do you know, small child. Do you know, energetic little sprite. Do you know, happy toddler. Do you know, momentary son. How you turn our lives upside-down while you are here, but leave us with hearts gaping when you leave?
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A Stirring Life: February 2012
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012. Fun and Frugal Hello Kitty Party. For games, we played musical chairs, freeze dance, and pin-the-bow on Hello Kitty. We put on HK tattoos and enjoyed a tasty lunch of finger foods like cheese, sausage and crackers, fruit kabobs, pigs-in-a-blanket, and mini pb&j sandwiches. Everything was designed to be fun, frugal, and well, a little fabulous. Homemade Table Centerpiece - Tablecloth is a flat sheet with a zebra print fabric remnant laid over the top. :. View my complete prof...
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A Stirring Life
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Monday, April 23, 2012. It was exactly 3 years ago last Friday, April 20th, that our world swiftly tilted. So last Thursday, April 19th, I paused. I tried to recollect how I was (who I was? Before April 20th happened. I imagined myself going about my day that was probably nothing far from ordinary. Was I happier? Because that was all before. Before the madness. Before the shatter. Before I ceased to be who I was and started to become who I am now. Or more like, who I had made Him out to be. And since the...
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A Stirring Life: May 2011
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Thursday, May 26, 2011. Lessons from a Horse. When Seabiscuit's owners first find him, they, along with the horse trainer, take him for a run around the track to see how Seabiscuit performs. He seems fast.". In every direction.". He's so beat up it's hard to tell what he's like.". He just needs to learn how to be a horse again.". You know, you don't throw a whole life away just 'cause he's banged up a little.". I am fond of quoting this movie line, time and again, because I don't believe that any person ...
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A Stirring Life: July 2011
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Tuesday, July 05, 2011. And just watching my three year old softly curled up in my strong Husband's arms made me think about being carried. Moments of struggle throughout my life slowly drifted through my memory. Heartache. Brokenness. Grief. Even now, looking back, I seriously wonder how I ever survived some of these things without dying of a broken heart. And I believe the answer is. carried. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Following the Journey of. Our Beautiful Little Girls.
